On Friday, December 7, 2012 2:25:17 PM UTC-8, John Carlyle wrote:
It's my understanding that the "dynamic" microphones are really capacitive microphones. This is indeed the design that sound studios use.

While we are on corrections. There is really no such thing as a type of microphones "studios use". Go into any recording studio and you'll see a mix of dynamic, condenser and ribbon microphones used for recording anything from vocals to guitar cabinets to drums (and on a singe drum kit you might have all types of microphones used at once). And every now and again you'll see things like a speaker used as a microphone on a kick drum,... just an oversized dynamic mic.

And if anything high-end vocal studio mics tend to be condenser not dynamic types, e.g. require phantom power and are more sensitive than dynamic mics.. But even for vocals you'll potentially see all types used.

Darryl